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SA’s Global Rankings – Are we in for a Big Surprise? (Part 3)
Yes, we are! by Steuart Pennington World Competitiveness Report 2012 Results The World Competitiveness Report, ranking the world’s top 59 countries as measured by size of GDP (up from 57 last year) has...
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The World Competitiveness Yearbook: SA’s ranking – better or worse?
Answer: Both by Steuart Pennington In this newsletter I will do two things: First, I will track our improvements and our slippages over the past five years; Second, I will compare how we do against...
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SA most competitive in sub-Saharan Africa
South Africa remains the most competitive economy in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2012/13 released on Wednesday.
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South African Global Competitiveness – Slipping or Sliding?
by Steuart Pennington This year South Africa’s Global Competitiveness ranking out of 144 countries slipped from 50th to 52nd. Paradoxically, in the World Competitiveness Yearbook 2012 our ranking has...
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There are two South Africas
The three articles we at South Africa – the Good News have written over the past month on our ‘Political, Social and Economic prospects for 2013 and Beyond’ have drawn considerable comment. In this...
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The 2014 Global Competitiveness Report – Bad news firstly, good news...
South Africa has slipped further down the ladder on our global competitiveness ranking from 50 (2011), 52 (2012), 53 (2013) to 56 this year. In 2006 we were ranked 42nd.
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S.A. Fast Facts by Steuart Pennington
We try an update these figures every year, fortunately the Global Competitiveness Report and the Economist Pocket World in Figures are published annually, but many of our other sources are not. We...
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